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• Labour MP in Brexit Mace protest ‘acted on spur of the moment’

  10-12-2018 23:40
  Lloyd Russell-Moyle said he was protesting because the Tories were riding ‘roughshod over the principle of parliamentary democracy’.
  
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• May to meet Germany's Merkel after delaying Brexit vote

  10-12-2018 23:38
  LONDON (Reuters) - Prime Minister Theresa May will meet German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Tuesday to discuss the concerns expressed by British lawmakers over her Brexit deal, her office said on Monday.
  
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• Man charged over attempted abduction of six-year-old girl at Egham Christmas market

  10-12-2018 23:35
  Police have charged a man with attempting to abduct a six-year-old girl at a Christmas market.
  
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• MP causes uproar in parliament by grabbing mace in Brexit protest

  10-12-2018 23:33
  Monday’s Commons debate on Theresa May’s decision to call off her Brexit vote ended in high drama as a Labour MP seized the ceremonial mace in protest.As the government formally declared it would not continue with the debate on the withdrawal agreement, Lloyd Russell-Moyle marched forward to grab the mace in protest and held it up in the centre of the chamber to widespread outrage from the Tory benches.The Brighton Kemptown MP appeared unsure of his next step and handed the mace back
  
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• Theresa May to meet Angela Merkel over Brexit deal

  10-12-2018 23:30
  The PM will also hold talks with her Dutch counterpart on Tuesday.
  
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• Theresa May delays vote on Brexit deal and admits she faced 'significant' defeat

  10-12-2018 23:24
  Theresa May has dramatically postponed a House of Commons vote on her Brexit deal, admitting she would have suffered a "significant" defeat.The prime minister confirmed in a statement to MPs she had delayed the meaningful vote on her EU agreement, which had been scheduled for Tuesday night, as she attempts to keep alive both her deal and her premiership.Mrs May told parliament she will instead head to an EU summit in Brussels this week to discuss the "clear concerns" of MPs about her deal's so-c
  
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• Brexit’s key players as week of drama looms

  10-12-2018 23:14
  With turmoil at Westminster and a crunch EU summit days away we look at who’s who in the Brexit battle.
  
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• Labour MP booted out of Commons after Brexit mace protest

  10-12-2018 23:10
  Lloyd Russell-Moyle picked the mace up and marched towards the doors of the Commons.
  
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• Man charged over woman’s death

  10-12-2018 22:58
  The body of Ann McLean was found at a property in Ayr last month.
  
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• To quell unrest, France's Macron speeds up tax cuts but vows no U-turn

  10-12-2018 22:52
  France's President Emmanuel Macron on Monday announced wage rises for the poorest workers and tax cuts for pensioners in further concessions meant to defuse weeks of often violent protests that have challenged his authority.In his first national address following France's worst unrest for years, Macron sought to restore calm and struck a humble tone after accusations his governing style and economic policies were fracturing the country."We will respond to the economic and social urgency with str
  
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• Wild Scenes In Parliament As Labour MP Lloyd Russell-Moyle Kicked Out For Grabbing Ceremonial Mace In Brexit Protest

  10-12-2018 22:25
  A Labour MP has been ordered to leave the House of Commons for the day after
  
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• Seven years for driver who knocked policewoman down twice in stolen car

  10-12-2018 22:09
  Reham Baluch went on to collide with several parked cars and a police van before the vehicle was found abandoned.
  
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• Desperate Theresa May reveals her Brexit plan B: buy more time

  10-12-2018 22:08
  Theresa May will meet Dutch PM Mark Rutte on Tuesday.Theresa May is to embark on a frantic round of European diplomacy in a final attempt to salvage her Brexit deal and her premiership after a chaotic day in which she pulled Tuesday’s scheduled meaningful vote in the face of overwhelming opposition.The prime minister will meet German chancellor Angela Merkel in Berlin on Tuesday afternoon to seek “further assurances” to ensure that the Northern Irish backstop would never come i
  
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• Brexit: desperate May dashes to continent in search for concessions

  10-12-2018 22:08
  Theresa May will meet Dutch PM Mark Rutte on Tuesday.Theresa May is to embark on a frantic round of European diplomacy in a final attempt to salvage her Brexit deal and her premiership after a chaotic day in which she pulled Tuesday’s scheduled meaningful vote in the face of overwhelming opposition.The prime minister will meet the German chancellor, Angela Merkel, in Berlin on Tuesday to seek “further assurances” to ensure that the Northern Irish backstop would never come into
  
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• UK government takes formal step in parliament to delay vote on Brexit deal

  10-12-2018 22:04
  LONDON (Reuters) - The British government on Monday formally delayed a planned vote in parliament on Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit deal.
  
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• 'Kicking the can': how Theresa May came to delay Brexit vote

  10-12-2018 21:39
  Theresa May arrives at No 10 Downing Street after making her statement to the House of Commons.Theresa May had long taken the decision to cancel the meaningful vote in parliament when she sent her troops out on the airwaves on Monday morning to insist that she would not do so.Michael Gove was pressed on Radio 4’s Today programme on whether it was “definitely, 100%” going to happen.
  
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• A day of dithering: how Theresa May came to postpone Brexit vote

  10-12-2018 21:39
  Theresa May arrives at No 10 Downing Street after making her statement to the House of Commons.Theresa May had long taken the decision to cancel the meaningful vote in parliament when she sent her troops out on the airwaves on Monday morning to insist that she would not do so.Michael Gove was pressed on Radio 4’s Today programme on whether it was “definitely, 100%” going to happen.
  
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• PM delays vote on Brexit and admits she faced 'significant' defeat

  10-12-2018 21:32
  Theresa May has dramatically decided to pull a House of Commons vote on her Brexit deal after admitting she would suffer a "significant" defeat.In a statement to MPs on Monday, the prime minister confirmed she will delay a vote on her EU agreement, which had been scheduled for Tuesday night, as she attempts to keep alive both her deal and her premiership.Mrs May told the Commons she will instead head to an EU summit in Brussels this week to discuss the "clear concerns" of MPs about her deal's so
  
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• May urged to resign during stormy Commons Brexit showdown

  10-12-2018 21:30
  The Prime Minister was heckled by Opposition MPs during a lengthy statement.
  
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• Theresa May accused of ‘premature parliamentary ejaculation’

  10-12-2018 21:25
  Labour MP Rupa Huq made the claim over the Brexit vote.
  
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• EU court says UK can U-turn on Brexit if it wants

  10-12-2018 21:25
  LUXEMBOURG/BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union's top court ruled on Monday that the British government may reverse its decision to leave the bloc without consulting other member states, a decision welcomed by those campaigning to stop Brexit.The heightened uncertainty over how and even whether Britain can arrange to leave lent even greater significance to the ruling, which also indicated that Britain may, if others agree, postpone its withdrawal from March 29 in order to hold a rerun of its
  
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• Crossrail costs and delays are extended

  10-12-2018 21:25
  Sky's business correspondent Adam Parsons looks at what has happened to Crossrail as completion is delayed for a second time.
  
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• Sturgeon brands Brexit vote delay ‘political cowardice’

  10-12-2018 21:16
  The SNP leader also said it is time for a motion of no confidence in the UK Government.
  
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• Delayed Crossrail gets up to £2bn in new financing

  10-12-2018 21:16
  London transport chiefs have announced up to £2bn in new financing to complete the delayed Crossrail project.It is hoped that the money - the bulk of which will come from the Greater London Authority (GLA) through a government borrowing facility - will cover additional costs to allow completion.The Elizabeth Line - running from Reading and Heathrow in the west through central tunnels across to Shenfield and Abbey Wood in the east - was supposed to have opened this autumn.
  
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• In full: Theresa May delays the vote on her Brexit deal

  10-12-2018 21:15
  Theresa May tells MPs she has "listened very carefully" to three days of debate on her Brexit deal.
  
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• EU rules out reworking Brexit deal, prepares for no-deal -Tusk

  10-12-2018 21:15
  EU leaders will not renegotiate Britain's Brexit deal, including the Irish border "backstop", their chairman Donald Tusk said on Monday after Prime Minister Theresa May put off a parliamentary vote on a package that was facing heavy defeat.EU officials said European Council President Tusk could meet May as early as Tuesday to prepare talks on Brexit during a regular Brussels summit which May will attend on Thursday and Friday.
  
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• Brexit in turmoil as May pulls vote to seek changes to EU divorce

  10-12-2018 21:15
  British Prime Minister Theresa May on Monday postponed a parliamentary vote on her Brexit deal to seek more concessions but the European Union refused to renegotiate and lawmakers doubted her chances of winning big changes.May's abrupt move less than 30 hours before parliament was to vote opens up a range of possibilities from a Brexit without a deal, a last-minute agreement or another EU referendum.Admitting she faced defeat on Britain's potentially biggest political and economic shift since Wo
  
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• France's Macron to speed up tax cuts, raise wages, vows no U-turn

  10-12-2018 21:13
  President Emmanuel Macron on Monday announced wage rises for the poorest workers and tax cuts for pensioners, offering concessions after weeks of often violent protests that have challenged his authority.In his first national address following two weekends of the worst unrest in France in years, Macron sought to restore calm after accusations that his political methods and economic policies were fracturing the country."We want a France where one can live in dignity through one's work and on this
  
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• New Google+ bug exposed personal information of 52 million users

  10-12-2018 21:05
  The tech giant has fast-tracked the closure of its Google+ social media platform by four months.
  
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• Why Theresa May has delayed the vote on her Brexit deal

  10-12-2018 21:02
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• Theresa May to seek assurances from EU on Brexit deal after pulling crucial vote

  10-12-2018 20:46
  The Prime Minister acknowledged she was facing a heavy defeat if the vote had gone ahead on Tuesday as planned.
  
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• Brexit backstop assurances will be irrelevant if not in divorce deal - Rees-Mogg

  10-12-2018 20:44
  Any assurances Britain secures from the European Union on the Irish backstop in the Brexit divorce deal will be "completely irrelevant" if they are not in the Withdrawal Agreement, eurosceptic lawmaker Jacob Rees-Mogg said on Monday."Anything that is not physically in the treaty is 'junior law', so if the prime minister comes back with a statement, warm words, it's completely irrelevant because the treaty outranks it," Rees-Mogg told reporters.The strongest opposition to May's deal centres aroun
  
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• ECJ ruling does not change our policy on Article 50, says UK Brexit minister

  10-12-2018 20:43
  Britain's policy of not revoking its Article 50 Brexit notice has not been changed by a European court ruling saying that the government could do so without needing the consent of European Union counterparts, Brexit minister Stephen Barclay said."The judgement does not in any way change our policy ... the government’s firm and long held policy is that we will not revoke the Article 50 notice, this position has not changed," Barclay told parliament.
  
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• What are people saying about Theresa May deferring the Brexit vote?

  10-12-2018 20:42
  The Prime Minister was accused of being ‘frit’ by one Labour backbencher, but insisted she was determined to get her deal ‘over the line’.
  
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• May to meet Dutch PM in bid to win Brexit vote approval

  10-12-2018 20:42
  British Prime Minister Theresa May will meet Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte in the Hague on Tuesday, her office said on Monday, part of her attempts to secure assurances to win over a hostile parliament in London over her Brexit deal."As the prime minister said in her statement today, over the next few days she will go to see her counterparts in other member states to discuss the concerns that parliament has expressed," her office said in a statement.
  
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• Laws of Maybotics collapse in PM's theatre of the absurd

  10-12-2018 20:35
  Theresa May backed herself into a corner in which every course of action ended in extreme self-harm.Shortly after lunch, Graham Brady received another letter of no confidence in the prime minister.Theresa May had backed herself into a corner in which every course of action ended in extreme self-harm.
  
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• Diana dress found in secondhand shop sells for £155,000

  10-12-2018 20:28
  The Banquet gown was among a collection of royal outfits donated to the shop.
  
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• 'EU have got us exactly where they want us'

  10-12-2018 20:20
  Chairman of People's Vote Roland Rudd and Founder of Leave Means Leave, Richard Tice, join Ian King to discuss the delay to the PM's Brexit vote in the Commons.
  
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• 'Babes in the wood' murderer Russell Bishop found guilty 31 years after acquittal

  10-12-2018 20:19
  Convicted paedophile Russell Bishop has been found guilty of murdering two nine-year-old girls in 1986.Bishop, 52, was tried for the second time over the deaths of Nicola Fellows and Karen Hadaway when new evidence linked him to the crime after he was cleared of their murders in 1987.The girls were sexually assaulted and strangled in a den in Wild Park, Brighton, more than three decades ago.
  
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• Gene study unlocks mystery of how redheads get their locks

  10-12-2018 20:05
  The University of Edinburgh carried out the biggest study of its kind to date.
  
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• UK government to publish immigration policy paper by end of year - parliamentary leader

  10-12-2018 20:00
  The British government plans to publish a policy paper on its post-Brexit immigration system before the end of the year, the leader of the House of Commons, Andrea Leadsom, said on Monday.Prime Minister Theresa May has said the new system will prioritise high-skilled workers and treat European Union citizens the same as those from elsewhere after Britain leaves the bloc next March, but is yet to set out further details.
  
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• Brexit chaos: what happens next?

  10-12-2018 19:57
  What has Theresa May done?Facing what she conceded to the House of Commons was expected to be a “significant” loss when her Brexit deal was put to MPs, Theresa May has instead postponed Tuesday evening’s vote.Instead, it was put off via an informal change in Commons business.
  
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• UK government will decide when Brexit vote takes place - parliamentary leader

  10-12-2018 19:50
  LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Theresa May's government will decide when parliament will vote on her Brexit agreement with the European Union, the governing Conservative Party's leader in the lower house said on Monday.
  
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• Corbyn faces call to move vote of no confidence in May

  10-12-2018 19:38
  More than 50 Labour MPs and peers say that if confidence motion fails the party must commit to a second referendum.
  
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• Aretha's late reply, Phil Collins' divorce notice – and other famous faxes

  10-12-2018 19:31
  The NHS will not buy any more fax machines.Collins says the persistent rumour that he asked his second wife for a divorce by fax damaged his public persona and was a factor in his decision to retire from music.“I was in Frankfurt and sent her a fax because the phone kept going down,” he said in 2016.
  
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• Brexit in turmoil as PM May pulls vote on her EU divorce deal

  10-12-2018 19:26
  Prime Minister Theresa May abruptly postponed a parliamentary vote on her Brexit deal on Monday, throwing Britain's plan to leave the European Union into chaos after admitting that she faced a rout.May's move on the eve of the scheduled parliamentary vote opens up an array of possible outcomes ranging from a disorderly Brexit without a deal, a last-minute deal clinched just weeks before Britain's March 29 exit, or another EU referendum.Announcing the delay, May was laughed at by some lawmakers w
  
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• Theresa May Postpones Brexit Vote

  10-12-2018 19:25
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• Pound falls to lowest in almost two years amid Brexit uncertainty

  10-12-2018 19:24
  A graph shows the falling value of sterling at the offices of CMC Markets in the City of London.The pound has dropped to its lowest level for almost two years amid the growing risks to the British economy from political paralysis over Brexit and on a no-deal scenario.Theresa May’s decision to delay the parliamentary vote on her Brexit plan to avoid an embarrassing defeat for the government sent sterling tumbling by more than 1.3% against the dollar and by more than 1.1% against the euro on
  
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• Tory minister channels Harry Enfield, saying Liverpool mayor should ‘calm down’

  10-12-2018 19:19
  Northern Powerhouse Minister Jake Berry said Joe Anderson should ‘calm down, calm down’ over funding concerns.
  
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• Raheem Sterling's Stand Against The Media Wins Support From Across Football

  10-12-2018 19:04
  Footballers and campaigners have swung behind Raheem Sterling after the
  
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